Santa and Gavin

Gavin enjoyed his forst encounter with the big guy!!

Gavin likes to throw Mommy's shoes down the stairs. Then giggle and point them out for Mommy!!



Notice anything different about Jocelyn? No Braces!! Doesn't she look fabulous!

Making Pralines--Elf Style!!

After Thanksgiving we took a 2 hour detour to Yuma. The Runyan elves were producing mass quanities of Pralines. We took our turn and helped for 12 hours!!

3 Generations of Praline Makers. Smile

Thanksgiving 2005

We went to Michelle's in Phoenix for Thanksgiving this year. Priscilla and Terry were there having medical tests and what not done. Tawnya and Kailey came the day before we did, so we missed them, but we got to see the Neal cousins and that was great. We spent some of Thanksgiving day playing football. It was a lot of fun.

Shawn gets to ride Eric's bike. (If you know Shawn's history with 2-wheeled vehicles you'd be scared too!)

Jocelyn helps create a thankful cornucopia that Gma Cilla wanted to do.

Michelle in the kitchen, creating a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner. It was so great of her to let us all descend upon her house and spend the holiday together!!

Marissa and Gpa walk in unison. They had a great time playing football together with Trevor, Tristan, and Tyler!
Grandma Helps Michelle prepare a Thanksgiving feast.


Gavin gets his favorite kind of ride. He loves to be thrown in to air by his Daddy! Again, again!!

A Day in the Mountains

11/13/05

Marissa and Tristan pose for a picture in the mountains. Michelle and Jennifer took their cameras in to the forest and took a lot of fun pictures. Gavin and Jocelyn pose for a few pictures. Don't they look a little simular?
Here's our family altogether. It is so hard to believe that our kids are so old!
Jocelyn, Trevor, Tristan and Tiffany enjoy the "cookies" Aunt Michelle bought at the lodge.

MARISSA 2005

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Here's Marissa and siblings on her Birthday!!

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Marissa shows off her new purse, belt, cell phone holder, earrings, necklace and more........

Gavin helps his sister with her present.....

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Here Marissa, I'll take that!!

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Halloween 2005

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YODA

YODA....Walk or walk not there is no crawl.....

Tiffany is a Sparklie Purple Witch

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Marissa a football player and Jocelyn Dorothy from the Wizard of OZ

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We added some tombstones to our yard this year!!

The girls add Gray Paint

Tombstone creations

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Shawn and Tiffany discuss the pumpkin options. Scary, Happy, Funny????

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Wow Marissa, that's a lot of Pumpkin!!

GAVIN The First Year!

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10 Months Old

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He loves to bounce in his exersaucer!!

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Gavin and Daddy in their church shirts. September 2005

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Gavin 1 Week Old

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Gavin 1 minute old

December 30th 2004

10 things about lake Powell

This is the back of one of Jocelyn's school binders:

We’re the Runyans, we’re the Runyans
Everyone knows that we’re the Runyans
We like to get together, regardless of the weather
We get really excited when we can be united
With cousins, aunts and brothers too
Grand fathers and grandmothers too
Because we are all the Runyans, we’re the Runyans
We all don’t have the name, but we’re Runyans just the same
So we might as well enjoy our notoriety, and fame
We’re the Runyans, we’re the Runyans, we’re that Runyans

10 Things I Learned From The 2005 Lake Powell Runyan Reunion

1. Sacrafice yourself for the good of the team.
2. It takes at least 20 minutes to get the courage to jump off of a cliff.
3.Hang on for dear life at all times
4. Never tell someone a scorpion is coming at them(Especially not my mom!)
5. Don’t go 60 on a jet ski and do a flip turn while letting off the gas
6. Don’t sleep on the roof when it’s raining
7.If you don’t laugh so hard you cry, you haven’t fully experienced the reunion
8.Don’t go for the Golden Ouch Award
9.Lucy and Jocelyn can’t survive the Chariot of Death
10.There are only three speeds on the tubes:
Fast
Killer
and Bleeding

St.George Marathon 2005

Yey!! We finished a good, well paced race! We made it in four hours and twenty five minutes.

First Day of School August 2005

Here are the kids on the first day of school. Don't they look great!

Tiffany is in Mrs. Beck's class --3rd grade.

Marissa is now at the Intermediate School and is in 6th grade.

Jocelyn is at the middle school again this year and is in 9th grade.

Lake Powell

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Grandma teaches Gavin how to drink out of a straw.



















Grandad and Gavin talk eye to eye.














Nick, Mary and Marissa hold on for dear life!!





Marissa and Gavin at Lake Powell. I think Gaivin is eating a graham cracker.



Tiffany awaits her turn on the Jetski.